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Thank You

This blog came completely out of inspiration. I have been writing for professional reasons for about 15 years on and off, and I’ve always wanted to start my own blog… but what to write? It stumped me; I struggled. What could I write about that would launch me into blogosphere royalty like Pete Cashmore and Ariana Huffington?

I came up with idea after idea, but I would get boggled by the thought of writing day in and day out the subject of business, entrepreneurship, social media or even travel. I could exhaust my interest for those topics with less than a days thought. Hmmm…

Then one day on my morning walk, I was listening to my Itunes when I connected the song I was listening to with my soul’s desire. And with a lifted heart and floating feet, I walked another mile and a half home with my mind flooding with ideas for the Thank You Blog. Okay, so it would not make me the next Pete or Ariana, but that’s okay. Doing something is better than doing nothing out of fear, or frustration, or whatever. Sometimes it’s okay to do something because it makes you happy, and that’s enough.

Thank You Alanis Morrisette

In her song, “Thank You,” Alanis Morisette sings about welcoming hardship as life’s greatest teacher and gives thanks for the lessons she has learned from “terror, frailty, and consequence,” just to name a few. The idea is very Buddhist in nature, and follows the wisdom of hardship (or the enemy) being our greatest teacher. That is why we should embrace these things. How else would we learn? We would wallow in an existence of perpetual ignorance. When we go through something difficult, come through and then reflect, we often have much to be thankful for.

Alanis’ song inspired this blog. I have been teaching the “attitude of gratitude” as part of my meditation and natural healing classes for many years. But lately, as my life took a turn for the more practical (less adventurous), my attitude of gratitude as been waning. So, thank you to Alanis Morrisette for this song that reminds me each morning as a play it on my Itunes “Walking Music” that I can be thankful for the hard lessons I have learned so far, rather than get trapped in some sort of negative self-pity. That has never helped anyone, anywhere, EVER!

So, my future topics will be themed on places – Thank you India; On sociology – How ’bout stopping eating when I’m full up?; On ideology – Thank you nothingness; and art – Thank you Alanis for this song.

What about you… can art beget art? Have you been inspired to take about a project or change course because of a book or a song? What artist would you say “Thank You” to?